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Alas, poor Tom Campbell. He gave up this week trying to compete with millionaires Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman, as news leaked out that he is now running for the U.S. Senate.
But things aren’t getting any easier for Campbell, who is a professor at Chapman University, in Orange. Now he has to run against another millionaire, Carly Fiorina, who just lent herself $2.5 million, and Assemblyman Chuck DeVore.
Campbell is expected to confirm his switch to the Senate race tomorrow, in Los Angeles, according to the Sacramento Bee.
Here is an excerpt from Campbell’s bio, which you can read on his website:
Tom has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. His faculty advisor was Milton Friedman. Prior to that, Tom had obtained his B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from the University of Chicago, on the same day in 1973. He then entered Harvard Law School where he served on the Harvard Law Review Board of Editors. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law in 1976. After law school, Tom served as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White. Thereafter, Tom returned to the University of Chicago for his economics doctorate, received in 1980. His free market economics training cemented a life-long commitment to limited government and greater individual liberty.
Campbell is certainly the most libertarian candidate in the race.
He has strong fiscal conservative credentials, an impressive resume, and lacks the social conservative baggage that might hurt some GOP candidates with many California center-right general election voters (who are fiscally conservative, but socially liberal).
Looks to me like the Republican power structure has thrown Campbell under the bus, telling him to back off on Governorship hopes (undoubtedly because some other Repub. candidate is the annointed one)and convinced him to go after Boxer instead. Campbell has held many posts, including State Director of Finance for the Gubernator for about a year, but as for actually accomplishing something seems to lack a resume. His announcing for Boxer’s seat reminds me of how the Repub. party often deflects aspiring members of their party to run for Lt. Governor which history shows has been suicide. So long, Mr. Campbell.
Im for Campbell now. I used to be for chuck, but his ego is just way too overboard.
IrvineReporter,
Ego? Example please.
EGO? is right Janette. This man actually helped a woman without fanfare or using it for his campaign. He helped her when Boxer and Feinstein wouldn’t. Because of his foreign affairs experience with the Reagan administration he did what he could to help her mother be released from a Chinese prison. Unbeknownst to him, she was released. The daughter came to an event in San Diego and stood up and explained what help the Assemblyman did to help secure her mothers release. IF Campbell or Fiorina had done that you can bet your boots it would have been publicized. DeVore felt for the safety of the woman he would never use that as a campaign issues unless he had authority given to him by the family. Her mother’s safety is utmost. NOW you tell me, is that EGO? Ya, its bogus. DeVore is the one with the integrity and none of them come up to that caliber. How do I know. My friend was at the meeting.